Do you prefer your certificate in hand, plastic, or online?

Question

Do you prefere you certificates in hand... Plastic? Or Are you fine by having Them online. To show by app. I like both having the plastic certificate... And My logged dives in a paper logbook

Answer 1

I prefer online because one time I went on a trip to the Mediterranean Sea and when I went there I had no intention of it being a diving trip. Turns out the diving offshore of the beach my hotel was on is very good. I didn't bring my dive card because I didnt think that I was going to dive and I didn't have an online copy so the dive shop didn't let me dive unless I called the dive shop that I got certified with( in America) 3 years earlier. So I called the dive shop and asked them for proof of my certification then finally I was able to dive, but if I had an online version of the card it would have been much less of a hastle and it is much more efficient to have a virtual version of your certification.

Answer 2

I like the idea of having both, which I do. I carry my card with me, but if for some reason I didn't have it, i know i can pull it up on my app too. My dive logs are all on paper, but i'm trying to convert them over so i have an online version too, just as a back up.

Answer 3

Interesting question, when I lived in California it seemed that every dive shop was on line and you didn't have to carry your certification in hand. But when I moved back to Texas that wasn't the case and had to carry your card.

Answer 4

I do both a plastic card and an app based card ad a backup.  I dive with a computer so I log all my drives on my computer using the usb connector and then upload them to an online system that lets me create a printed logbook and also lets me have my buddy verify my drives online to validate them.